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CAREFREE --- CAREFUL --- CARELESS
CARING --- CARPE DIEM

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CAREFREE

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Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.
--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
_On a Distant Prospect of Eton College_, st. 6

Faith and my name is Kelly Michael Kelly,
But I'm living the life of Reilly just the same.
--Harry Pease (fl. 1919)
Songwriter.
"My Name is Kelly" [1919 song]

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blithe (adj.)
Happy, cheerful, and carefree

idyll [EYE-dl], noun:
1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing
with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like.
2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme.
3. A lighthearted carefree episode or experience.
4. A romantic interlude.
Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the
pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They
are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid.
--Joanne Harris,
_Chocolata_

insouciant (adjective)
Having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree.
Syn.: happy-go-lucky, lighthearted, carefree
Related: giddy, nonchalant
Derived: insouciance, n.; insouciantly, adv.

raffish (adj.) ['ræ-fish]
1. Vulgar in taste, appearance, dissolute in behavior; rakish or
2. Dashing, carefree or unconventionally fun-loving; rakish.





CAREFUL

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Make haste slowly.
--Augustus [Gaius Octavius] (63 B.C.—14 A.D.)
The first Roman emperor.
In _Lives of the Caesars_ [c.121]
by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

You got to be careful if you don't know where
you're going, because you might not get there.
--Yogi Berra (1925— )
American baseball player and manager;
elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972.

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Carol Burnett (1934— )
American actress

Climbing out of a cab one day, Miss Burnett inadvertently caught her coat in
the door. As the driver continued on his way, unaware of the accident, the
comedienne was obliged to run alongside the moving vehicle to avoid being
pulled off her feet.

A quick-thinking passerby, noticing her plight, hailed the cab and alerted the
driver. Having realeased Miss Burnett's coat, the driver asked her anxiously,
"Are you all right?"
"Yes," she replied, still gasping for breath, "but how much more do I owe you?"

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun.
The frumious Bandersnatch!
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. I [1872]

He that will not sail till all dangers
are over must never put to sea.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732]

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you
know there is no hook beneath it.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Maria Cosway [12 October 1786].

Chance generally favors the prudent.
--Joseph Joubert (1754—1824)
French philosopher.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as
you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
--Cotton Mather (1663—1728)
American Congregational minister and author.
Advice to Benjamin Franklin upon approaching
a low hanging beam in his parsonage.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Romeo and Juliet_ [1595—1596], act II, scene iii

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fastidious (adj.)
1. Exceedingly particular or demanding esp. in matters
of detail; exacting.
Syn.: picky, persnickety, exacting, finicky,
Cr.Syn.: careful, particular
Similar: hypercritical, choosy, particular, demanding,
captious, fussy, meticulous
2. Excessively sensitive or delicate in matters of food,
manners, dress, or personal hygiene.
Syn.: squeamish
Similar: sensitive, fussy
Related: prim, precise, critical, finicky, exact, conscientious
Derived: fastidiously, adverb; fastidiousness, noun

meticulous [muh-TIK-yuh-luhs], adjective:
Extremely or excessively careful about details.

persnickety (adj.)
1. Fussy or demanding.
Syn.: particular, fussy, fastidious
Similar: squeamish, picky, hypercritical, exacting, finicky,
2. Requiring painstaking care of detail.
Synonyms: particular
Similar: nitpicking, meticulous, fussy, exacting, punctilious
Derived: persnicketiness, n.

punctilious (adj.) [pêngk-'ti-lee-ês]
Strict about or attentive to details of proper conduct and
conventional matters.
Similar to "meticulous," but the two are not
interchangeable. "Meticulous" means careful and precise about
details. "Punctilious" adds the dimension of being careful and
precise about the details of conventional conduct.

solicitous [suh-LIS-uh-tuhs], adjective:
1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern.
2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive.
3. Extremely careful; meticulous.
4. Full of desire; eager.




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CARELESS

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Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

The consul called the troops an army who had betrayed
military discipline and deserted its standards. He then
asked them individually where their weapons were, or
their standards, as the case might be, and gave orders
that every soldier who had lost his equipment, every
standard-bearer who had lost his standard, every
centurion, too, who had abandoned his post, should
be first flogged and then beheaded. The remainder
were decimated.
--Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC—17 AD)
with Sallust and Tacitus, one of
the three great Roman historians [EB].
_The History of Rome_,
in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]
Cohan & Major note that:
This is the earliest (471 BC) recorded example of decimation,
the selection by lot of every tenth man for execution. It is
probably an instance of the creation of an early precedent
for a later practice. It was rarely carried out but was revived
at the end of the Republic and used from time to time by
emperors.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness
about our freedom is also dangerous.
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician

Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to render any
man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice.
--Francis Wayland, D.D. (1796—1865)
Baptist minister, President of Brown University,
professor of moral philosophy, and author.

We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.
_Life's Scars_

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We can imagine no reason why, with
ordinary care, human toes could not
be left out of chewing tobacco, and
if toes are found in chewing tobacco,
it seems to us that somebody has been
very careless.
--Pillars vs. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. [1918]

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cursory [KUR-suh-ree], adjective:
Hastily or superficially performed.
Ex.: "On most days, however, she confined her daily
reading to a cursory scan of two or three newspapers."
--James A. Drake,
_Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography_




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CARING

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see "KINDNESS" for related links


It is a general error to imagine the loudest complainers
for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
Observations on a publication entitled
"The Present State of the Nation" [1769]

Unless someone like you...cares a whole awful
lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not.
--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.
_The Lorax_ [1971]

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
--Homer (c. 850? BC)
Greek epic poet.

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure
in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with
him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these
moments something fine and spiritual passes between two
friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
--Don Marquis (1878—1937)
American poet and journalist.

I wish I could care what you do or where you go
but I can't . . . My dear, I don't give a damn.
--Margaret Mitchell (1900—1949)
American novelist.
_Gone with the Wind_ [1936] (Spoken by Rhett Butler in ch. 57.)

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Not long ago, one of the nationally known picture
magazines had a photograph of a man prostrate on
subway stairs. For thirty minutes many people
passed him by without ever a helping hand.

The editorial comment was about the coldness of
the modern man in the face of distress. What was
forgotten was that the photographer of the picture
magazine did nothing for thirty minutes for the
afflicted individual except to snap pictures and
make his own living.

--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular
preacher to appear on television.
_On Being Human_ [1982]

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I didn't think I'd ever need a friend because I had
him . . .The only person who ever really cared if I
lived or died. Lots of people were interested in
whether I lived or died, but he cared.
--Ruth, a character in Toni Morrison
_Song Of Solomon_ [1987], Ch. 5


TOPICAL

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REMEMBER AFRICA

We live in a world of light and shade
where people suffer and need our aid.
Where children starve, their eyes downcast,
with legs like sticks they're forced to fast.
Do we care enough?
Do we care?

On TV we've seen them there,
babies sucking on dry breasts bare.
Once strong fathers giving up hope -
with hunger and fear it's hard to cope.
Do we care enough?
Do we care?

Men and women, old and young,
walking for miles in the glaring sun.
Upright and gaunt they make their way,
refugees in the heat of the day.
Do we care enough?
Do we care?

This miserable mass, flying no flags,
just bundles of bones clad only in rags;
tormented and goaded by fat filthy flies,
crawling on faces with tearless dead eyes.
Do we care enough?
Do we care?

When skeletal children stop asking why,
and frail old people just lie down and die.
When feudal armies plunder and fight,
caring nothing for human right.
Do we care enough?
Do we care?

How can we help to ease their pain?
Find them water to grow their grain?
Care and support is what they need,
Not fear and hunger or selfish greed.
Do we care enough?
Do we care?

--Written for Christian Aid by Valerie Copeland

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http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200406040840.asp

. . . "If this caring world is worried about the injustice of a fence or Islamaphobia, then start slurring nuclear India for its $1 billion fence, which shuts off the entire (impoverished Muslim) country of Bangladesh - a far harsher blow to far more millions than Israel's so-called "Wall" aimed at stopping suicide killing.

"If we hate the principle of "occupied lands," then let Europe cease trade with China and hector that dictatorial government about the cultural obliteration of occupied Tibet.

"If we are truly worried about violence, then let the U.N. and the EU turn their attention to Nigeria, where thousands are murdered yearly.

"If the death of tens of thousands of Muslims and the desecration of mosques bother the Arab League, then let them blast the Arabs of the Sudan, who are systematically and in the most racist fashion butchering black Muslims.

"But if after all that we have still not gotten our bearings, then let us rail about Sharon and the "occupation," and thus enable the Arab world to forget its self-induced misery and find psychic reassurance, as Europe too often has, by blaming Jews." . . .

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I mean it’s one thing to be ruled by an elite in a
country. There are elites of merit. There are elites
of wealth. There are elites of birth. We can have
various objections to being ruled by any of those
elites, but none of them are as objectionable as
the self-selected elite. And the Democrats tend
to regard themselves as an elite fit to run the
nation strictly on the basis of how much they
care about the problems. I care more than you
do, therefore I’m a better person that you are.
Because I’m a better person than you are, it
is only right and just that I have greater input
into how our society is run. It’s my privilege,
indeed my duty, to make sure that everything
goes right since I’m such a much better person
than you are because I care more. Why do I
care more? Because I say I care more. This
just is not a sufficient cause for elitism as
far as I can see.
--P.J. O'Rourke (1947— )
American political satirist.
[Interview c. 2000]

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solicitous [suh-LIS-uh-tuhs], adjective:
1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern.
2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive.
3. Extremely careful; meticulous.
4. Full of desire; eager.




CARPE DIEM

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But men must know that in this theater of
man's life it is reserved only for God and
the angels to be lookers on.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst
of times, it's the only time we've got.
--Art Buchwald (1925—2007)
American journalist and humorist who won the
1982 Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary.

The secret of health for both mind and body is
not to mourn for the past, not to worry about
the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but
to live in the present moment wisely and
earnestly.
--Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.)
Founder of Buddhism.

When you're younger, you want to be sure
that by the time you're eighty years old you
can sit on the bench and look back and say,
"Man, I did it all. I didn't miss a thing."
--Bill Cosby (1937— )
American comedian.

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I read _The Times_ and if my name is not
in the obits I proceed to enjoy the day.
--attributed to Noël Coward (1899—1973)
English playwright, actor, and composer.
--_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_
Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Death"

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Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
--James Dean (1931—1955)
American film actor.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
(Translation of Horace's _Odes_, bk. 3 # 29.)

The greatest gift . . . is the realization that
life does not consist either of wallowing in the
past or of peering anxiously at the future; and
it is appalling to contemplate the great number
of often painful steps by which one arrives at
a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently
expressed. It is good for one to appreciate
that life is now. Whatever it offers, little
or much, life is now — this day — this hour.
--Charles Macomb Flandrau (1871—1938)
American writer.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read
a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible,
to speak a few reasonable words.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_ (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship),
bk. 5, ch. I [1795—1796]

Regret for the things we did
can be tempered by time;
It is regret for the things we
did not do that is inconsolable.
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.

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'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.'
Seize the day, put no trust in the future.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Odes_, bk. I, # 11, l. 7


Cease to inquire what the future has in store,
and to take as a gift whatever the day brings
forth.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Carmina_ I. 9. 13.

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There are many fine things which you mean
to do some day, under what you think will
be more favorable circumstances. But the
only time that is surely yours is the present,
hence this is the time to speak the word of
appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous
deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless
friend, to sacrifice self a little more for
others. Today is the day in which to express
your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to
do at least one worthy thing which you have
long postponed, and to use your God-given
abilities for the enrichment of some less
fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can
make your life ...significant and worthwhile.
The present is yours to do with it as you
will.
--Grenville Kleiser (1868—1953)
American writer of humor and inspiration.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living,
in the tissue of each day and hour.
--Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944)
Canadian humorist.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead
of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good
while life and power are still yours.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.

An occasional glance at the obituary column of _The
Times_ has suggested to me that the sixties are very
unhealthy; I have long thought that it would
exasperate me to die before I had written this book,
and so it seemed to me that I had better set about
it at once. When I have finished it I can face the
future with serenity, for I shall have rounded off
my life's work.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Summing Up_ [1938], Chapter III

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Maxims_, # 633

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow;
Gather the roses of life today.
--Pierre de Ronsard (1524—1585)
French poet.
"Sonnets pour Hélène" 1, 43

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late;
look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to
a certain extent sacred.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_Counsels and Maxims_, ch. 2

How long do you want to wait until you start
enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get
Social Security, not girls.
--Neil Simon (1927— )
American playwright.
_Come Blow Your Horn_ [1961]

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the
morrow, or haply on days beyond it;
for tomorrow is not, until today is
past.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Trachiniae_, Line 943

As I got older I became aware of the folly of
this perpetual reaching after the future, and
of drawing from tomorrow, and from tomorrow
only, a reason for the joyfulness of today.
I learned, when alas, it was almost too late,
to live each moment as it passed over my head.
--William Hale White [pseud. Mark Rutherford] (1831—1913)
English novelist.

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"Carpe Diem? Maybe Tomorrow"
By John Tierney
"N.Y.Times" [28 December 2009]

For once, social scientists have discovered a flaw in the human psyche that will not be tedious to correct. You may not even need a support group. You could try on your own by starting with this simple New Year’s resolution: Have fun ... now!

Then you just need the strength to cash in your gift certificates, drink that special bottle of wine, redeem your frequent flier miles and take that vacation you always promised yourself. If your resolve weakens, do not succumb to guilt or shame. Acknowledge what you are: a recovering procrastinator of pleasure.

It sounds odd, but this is actually a widespread form of procrastination — just ask the airlines and other marketers who save billions of dollars annually from gift certificates that expire unredeemed. Or the poets who have kept turning out exhortations to seize the day and gather rosebuds.

But it has taken awhile for psychologists and behavioral economists to analyze this condition. Now they have begun to explore the strange impulse to put off until tomorrow what could be enjoyed today.

Why, for instance, is it so hard to find time to visit landmarks in your own backyard? People who have moved to Chicago, Dallas and London get to fewer local landmarks during their entire first year than the typical tourist visits during a two-week stay, according to a study conducted by Suzanne B. Shu and Ayelet Gneezy, who are professors of marketing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, San Diego, respectively. The Chicagoans in the study had visited more landmarks in other cities than in their own, and even their relatively small amount of local sightseeing was done mainly in the course of entertaining out-of-towners. Otherwise, the only time Chicagoans rushed to see the local landmarks was just before they were about to move to another city, when that deadline inspired sudden passions for taking architectural tours and going to the zoo.

When there is no immediate deadline, we’re liable to put off going to the zoo this weekend because we assume that we will be less busy next weekend — or the weekend after that, or next summer. This is the same sort of thinking that causes us to put the gift certificate in the drawer because we expect to have more time for shopping in the future.

We’re trying to do a cost-benefit analysis of the time lost versus the pleasure or money to be gained, but we’re not accurate in our estimates of “resource slack,” as it is termed by Gal Zauberman and John G. Lynch. These behavioral economists found that when people were asked to anticipate how much extra money and time they would have in the future, they realistically assumed that money would be tight, but they expected free time to magically materialize.

Hence you’re more likely to agree to a commitment next year, like giving a speech, that you would turn down if asked to find time for it in the next month. This produces what researchers call the “Yes ... Damn!” effect: when the speech comes due next year, you bitterly discover you’re still as busy as ever.

Dr. Shu and Dr. Gneezy demonstrated another effect of this fallacy by giving people gift certificates good for movie tickets and French pastries. Some got certificates that expired within two to three weeks; others got certificates good for six to eight weeks.

The people who received the long-term certificates were more confident than the others that they would redeem the gifts — a logical enough assumption, given all the extra time they had. But they just kept putting it off, and ultimately they were more likely to let the gift go unredeemed than the people who had received the short-term certificates.

Once you start procrastinating pleasure, it can become a self-perpetuating process if you fixate on some imagined nirvana. The longer you wait to open that prize bottle of wine, the more special the occasion has to be.

If you’re determined to get the absolute maximum out of those frequent flier miles, you can end up wasting them, as Dr. Shu found in an experiment offering people a chance to use discount coupons in the course of buying a series of plane tickets. Once the subjects were told that they might have a chance at a free flight worth $1,000, they scorned lesser awards and hung on to their coupons so long that in the end they had to use them for much cheaper flights.

“People can become overly focused on an ideal,” Dr. Shu said. “Even if they know it’s unlikely, they get so focused on the perfect scenario that they block everything else. Or they anticipate that they’ll kick themselves later if they take second-best option and then see the best one is still available. But they don’t realize that regret can go the other way. They’ll end up with something worse and regret not taking the second-best one.”

But even if you know about all this research, how can you apply these lessons? How can you avoid the temptation to postpone pleasure? (You can offer suggestions at nytimes.com/tierneylab.) One immediate strategy, Dr. Shu said, is to cash in quickly any gift certificate you received this holiday season. “The biggest danger is that it will be forgotten and expire,” she said. “One of the best presents you can give back to the giver is to use it quickly and then tell them how much you enjoyed it. The regret from not using it will be bigger than the regret from using it on a nonperfect occasion, for you and especially for the person who gave it.”

Another tactic is to give yourself deadlines. Cash in the miles by summer, even if you can’t get a round-the-world trip out of them. Instead of waiting for a special occasion to indulge yourself, create one. Dr. Shu approvingly cites the pioneering therapeutic work of Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, who for the past decade used their Wall Street Journal column on wine to proclaim the last Saturday of February to be “Open That Bottle Night.”

But you don’t even have to wait until Feb. 27. Remember the advice offered in the movie “Sideways” to Miles, who has been holding on to a ’61 Cheval Blanc so long that it is in danger of going bad. When Miles says he is waiting for a special occasion, his friend Maya puts matters in perspective:

“The day you open a ’61 Cheval Blanc, that’s the special occasion.”

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"A Story To Live By"
by Ann Wells
in the "Los Angeles Times," late 1990s

My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my
sister's bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package.
"This," he said, "is not a slip. This is lingerie." He
discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. It was
exquisite; silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb
of lace. The price tag with an astronomical figure on it
was still attached. "Jan bought this the first time we
went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago. She never
wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion. Well,
I guess this is the occasion." He took the slip from me
and put it on the bed with the other clothes we were
taking to the mortician. His hands lingered on the soft
material for a moment, then he slammed the drawer shut
and turned to me. "Don't ever save anything for a special
occasion. Every day you're alive is a special occasion."

I remembered those words through the funeral and the
days that followed when I helped him and my niece attend
to all the sad chores that follow an unexpected death.
I thought about them on the plane returning to California
from the Midwestern town where my sister's family lives. I
thought about all the things that she hadn't seen or heard
or done. I thought about the things that she had done
without realizing that they were special.

I'm still thinking about his words, and they've changed my
life. I'm reading more and dusting less. I'm sitting on the deck
and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the
garden. I'm spending more time with my family and friends and
less time in committee meetings. Whenever possible, life should
be a pattern of experience to savor, not endure. I'm trying to
recognize these moments now and cherish them.

I'm not "saving" anything; we use our good china and crystal
for every special event — such as losing a pound, getting the
sink unstopped, the first camellia blossom.

I wear my good blazer to the market if I feel like it. My theory
is if I look prosperous, I can shell out $28.49 for one small bag
of groceries without wincing. I'm not saving my good perfume
for special parties; clerks in hardware stores and tellers in banks
have noses that function as well as my party-going friends.

"Someday" and "one of these days" are losing their grip on
my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I
want to see and hear and do it now. I'm not sure what my
sister would have done had she known that she wouldn't be
here for the tomorrow we all take for granted. I think she
would have called family members and a few close friends.
She might have called a few former friends to apologize and
mend fences for past squabbles. I like to think she would
have gone out for a Chinese dinner, her favorite food. I'm
guessing — I'll never know.

It's those little things left undone that would make me angry
if I knew that my hours were limited. Angry because I put off
seeing good friends whom I was going to get in touch with
someday. Angry because I hadn't written certain letters that
I intended to write one of these days. Angry and sorry that
I didn't tell my husband and daughter often enough how much
I truly love them. I'm trying very hard not to put off, hold
back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to
our lives.

And every morning when I open my eyes, I tell myself that it
is special.

Every day, every minute, every breath truly is...a gift from
God.

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